Hi Aldo,
Very helpful references. Your ref [1] (see corrected link below) is
excellent and goes to much broader questions of the primitive power of
classes and the importance of context (I think that is another way to
consider "framing", no?) in situating semantic Web assertions. Very
useful. And I agree with the DBpedia infobox observations.
However, what I am looking for is a reference "grounding" that would
enable descriptive or quantitative attribute properties from different
vocabularies and ontologies to be mapped to one another. Two different
properties for, say, distance, could be related to a canonical distance
reference. Such a reference system should also allow, say, relating
different unit measures (e.g., English v metric distances) or possibly
allow string literals to be "lifted" to an object property or specific
datatype.
The ultimate purpose of such an attribute reference ontology would be to
aid true data operability between systems. I also have an intuitive
sense that such quantity and descriptive properties lend themselves to
an overall logical organization. Portions of Cyc seem to demonstrate
this; I will poke further into DOLCE as well.
Maybe this is just too difficult to do, and that is the reason I'm not
finding any prior work. ;)
Thanks, Mike
[1] http://www.slideshare.net/gangemi/isemantics-keynote
On 7/11/2014 2:34 AM, Aldo Gangemi wrote:
Hi Mike, you’re probably talking of a “framing” ontology that “unifies" sets of
properties for certain entities?
This Infobox-like structure is missing from DBpedia for example, as I described
in [1].
Probably the oldest ontology pattern for that is Descriptions and Situations
[2], also embedded in the DOLCE+DnS-Ultralight (DUL) foundational ontology [3].
Aldo
[1] http://www.slideshare.net/gangemi/isemantics-key
[2] http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/cp/owl/descriptionandsituation.owl
[3] http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl
On Jul 11, 2014, at 4:42:26 AM , Mike Bergman <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All,
I have been looking for an ontology that organizes and describes possible
characteristics or attributes for common entity types, such as what might be
found in a key-value pair in Wikipedia infoboxes and such.
I have had no luck finding such a vocabulary or ontology. The closest
representation I found was one related to sensors and the Internet of Things
(IoT) [1]. The Wolfram Language also has an interesting structure around units
[2]. Biperpedia has recently been discussed by Google [3], but no actual
ontology or structure yet appears available for inspection.
Does anyone know of a general ontology for capturing record/entity attributes
or characteristics (properties)? I know some domains like biomedical may have
partial approaches to this, but I'm seeking something that has as its intent
being a general-purpose attribute reference.
Suggestions or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Mike
[1]
http://eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl/23734/01/CICARE2013_-_Brandt_et_al_-_Semantic_interoperability_in_sensor_applications_-_final_version.pdf
[2] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/Units.html
[3] http://infolab.stanford.edu/~euijong/biperpedia.pdf
